By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“My gladiator lay down his shield
and gained his wings at 02:30...absolutely heartbroken.”
- Tom Evans, Alfie Evans father upon
his death

Little Alfie Evans has gone 'home' to
become one of God's angels, but some say he was sent 'home' before
his time. Some even say he was murdered by the British government's
state-run National Health Service... socialized medicine at it
worst...but the question is was Alfie murdered or was he set free
from a horrific illness there is no cure for.

And while some might not like what I'm
going to say, only those of us who have had a loved one with an
incurable illness...an illness where choices like those Alfie's
parents had to make...can even begin to understand the type and scope
of decisions that must come into play. And it's from here that I
speak from experience...experience no mother or father, son or
daughter, should ever have to make.

Little Alfie was not the first many of
us prayed and cried for...before him there was Charlie Gard...another baby 'supposedly' mandated to die in a hospital against his
parents wishes. And while a quiet reverent dignity was indeed denied
both families...for both their baby's passing was turned into a media
circus replete with the standard lights, camera, action scenario of
not just being a ratings blitz, but a soapbox for the lefts call for
even more government intrusion into all our lives, while the religious
right said the legal decisions to end both baby's lives were nothing but
the work of satan...yet one still has to wonder if there really are any villains or heroes in cases such as these.

And as both babies sadly did pass in the cold sterile surroundings
of an impersonal hospital room...sick as no little one should ever be...their parent's battle to keep their
children alive had become the stuff of parents v. doctors, judges,
and a legal system most here in America rightly see as repulsive.
Socialized medicine, some say, equals government death panels come to
life and in some, maybe even in many cases that surely is true, but
was the British court's ruling to pull both babies plugs on the
machines keeping them alive the right thing to do instead of letting
the parents make that heart-wrenching decision on their own...a
decision that might haunt them for the rest of their lives?

Sadly, and it pains me to say it, it might very well have been for
under British law courts are asked to intervene when parents and
doctors disagree on the best treatment for their child...treatment many
times demanded based upon emotions alone and not based upon what is
in the best interest of the child.

And while some claim these legal "purveyors of death"...as some
call them...did so solely based upon law instead of upon
compassion...based upon a law stating that once a dispute comes
before a court over the care of a child...which in both cases it
did...the 'Children Act 1989' provides that the welfare of the child is
to be the “paramount consideration”...it now becomes a reality
some in the public might not want to face...a reality that sometimes
the parents might very well not be the best ones to make the decision
regarding the welfare of their child...especially when all the facts
are not known nor have a right to be in the public domain.

And sometimes it's a decision no parent should ever have to
face let alone make...a decision to let their child die. And while
that child is of their flesh and blood and should never be a pawn of
government bureaucracy... unfortunately at times it comes to just
that. And then sometimes in the end the villain to most people's surprise
turns maybe not into a hero but into a guide showing the way to
setting a pained life free.

So in regards to little Alfie were his parents the best ones to
make the right decision...a decision to try and keep their baby alive
at all costs...to have experimental treatments done on him knowing
the chances of success were slim or dare I say nonexistent...or were
the doctors and the law actually trying to ease the pain of having
the parents make a decision no parent should ever have to make when
they ordered Alfie's life support to be turned off?

After much soul searching and praying with many tears shed that my
opinion in such a truly sad case is the right one...at least for
me...and while I know that opinion might anger some...I believe in
Alfie's case and in Charlie Gard's case as well...that the
doctors...who said that prolonging Alfie's life as it was, was both
“unkind and inhumane”...did the right thing in saying 'no
more' but not for the reasons you think.

Bare with me here...please.

So then why was it the right decision...because the doctors and
the British legal system...contrary to what the religious right
claim...were not playing God but were instead letting God call Alfie
'home' at the time of His choosing...coming to Him unencumbered by
machines, tubes, and wires, and with his loving parents by his side to
say their good-byes to his earthly body leaving his memory etched into their hearts forever.

And did it really matter if little Alfie passed in a hospital room
or at home...a home he had not seen in almost a year for a hospital
room had become home to him...no it did not for the place where one
passes is not really important...what is important is that Alfie's
suffering was over and that he was now one with God...and free of a
sick and pained body that did not serve him well.

Little Alfie Evans...the latest victim some say of British
socialized medicine...was born on May 9, 2016, with a progressive degenerative
neurological condition referred to as Mitochondrial DNA Depletion
Syndrome (MDS)...an embryonic present DNA affliction where
“energy” (oxygen and other necessary nutrients) does not
get to muscle, kidney, and brain tissue...“energy”
necessary to sustain life...the same illness little Charlie Gard was
believed to have had.

Fighting off one respiratory infection after another...coming off
the ventilator and having to go right back on again...and with
seizures causing Alfie to be in a permanent semi-vegetative
state...led the doctors at Alder Hey Hospital to say that it was in
Alfie's best interest to stop mechanical ventilation...aka life
support...and that he be provided with palliative care in order to let him
pass at a time when God chose to call him 'home' for the damage to his
brain was severe...damaged to such a degree that Alfie had
little brain function as his brain had been “eroded away”
leaving only water and cerebral spinal fluid where what we refer
to as the brain should be.

And as can be seen by the sad photos above and below, Alfie's kidneys were shutting down as well as witnessed by his so swollen legs, arms, trunk, and face as toxemia...as uremic poisoning...set in. The sweet cherub faced little baby of months ago was now long gone.

And knowing this leaves open the question of why did his parents try so hard to keep little Alfie alive when they now knew his death was predestined even before his birth? Seeing his deterioration go from bad to worse well over a year ago with nothing but artificial means keeping him alive...was it really their will to save a child they in their hearts knew could not be saved...no...I believe it was solely their refusal to let him go...the hardest decision any parent would ever have to make.

MDS is almost always fatal in babies and young children, but a few
of the 16 known sufferers...it is that rare a condition...have made
it into their early teens but with severely limited brain function...basically existing as a shell of a body being kept alive artificially
by machines, tubes, and wires with a mind all but blank to the world.
And while no can argue that morally it still should have been Alfie's
parents decision if that was the life they wanted for their son,
ethically the British courts...and later on the European Court of
Human Rights...thankfully stepped in and removed the Evans' input
from what they knew would have been their son's lingering, painful,
and horrific death. But the media terribly misunderstood the intent of the rulings...as they relished in twisting the facts to help fuel worldwide consternation...consternation that even drew the pope
into the fray.

But before I go on let it be known that I too am totally opposed
to socialized medicine...or what we here in America sometimes refer
to as a single-payer system...as I believe with every fiber of my
being that neither the government nor the courts should be involved
in health care at all...that it should be best left to an individual,
their family, and their doctor(s). But I also know that a sovereign
nation...in this case Great Britain...has a right to have a health
care system of their choosing without the butting in of let's say we
across 'the pond'...especially when that health care system is the
wishes of its own citizens.

So with that said, there is still something wrong when the
law...when the government...has its citizens saying that both
entities think themselves God. Would it have hurt them to let little
Alfie go home to die...would it have hurt them to let his parents
take him to Italy for a treatment that in all probability would not
work? No, it would not but there is a caveat with that 'no' for it
would have just postponed the inevitable dragging out little Alfie's
suffering even more...dragging out the parents desperate hope for a
cure that would not come. And while some say miracles do
happen...which we all know they do...miracles were not in Alfie's
future...not when one is basically both brain dead and encased in a
body that simply does not work.

Yet even with Alfie's death his memory still leaves many,
especially the religious, with questions that seem to have no
answer...questions about medical ethics and who and when does one
deem a life “not worth living.” Many
Christians...especially Catholics which Alfie's parents were...saw in
Alfie's case secularism run amok as they believe all life is worth
living, but is it really life when it's just machines keeping someone
alive. And is all life truly worth living especially when today's
Catholic social teachings add to the discourse that preserving life
should be “tempered by an awareness” that life should “not
be artificially prolonged” in all cases...in other words God
alone should make the decision of when to call someone 'home.'

“In the final analysis, it
pertains to the conscience either of the sick person, or of those
qualified to speak in the sick person’s name, or of the doctors, to
decide, in the light of moral obligations and of the various aspects
of the case.”The
Catholic Church's Declaration on Euthanasia And that is what the
doctors and the British courts did when they...not unlike King
Solomon...weighed the wishes of the parents against the welfare of
the child. And as much as it left broken hearts in its wake, I
believe, they did the right thing in a case that really had no right
or wrong for in the end little Alfie is now with God as God
intended him always to be.

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